Description: The most comprehensive monograph on Josef Müller-Brockmann.
Review Quotes: "One of graphic design's most influential figures... A fitting tribute to the father of the grid."--Creative Review
"Studies like Purcell's are the rarest of all design books... A long, continuous, engagingly written account of Müller-Brockmann's entire career. There have been a handful of graphic desgn books like this in the last decade... Knowing about Müller-Brockmann [...] is part of being a well-educated, historically aware designer."--Design Week "Not only introduces us to many of his works [...] but engages with another set of questions: those of influences, of the social and political environment(s) of the time... A great book."--Grafik "One of the most significant voices of twentieth-century graphic design, [...] Müller-Brockmann is perhaps best known as graphic design's leading proponent of the grid... With a combination of final design images, sketches, production drawings and unused design drafts from Müller-Brockmann's archive, all with detailed captions, this book provides a complete visual understanding of this prolific designer's oeuvre."--Ampersand (D&AD members magazine) "Well-researched... Provide[s] a historical and professional context, in addition to broadening Müller-Brockmann's own self-abridged personal and creative narrative... It is illuminating to find rarely seen illustration, exhibition and set design works... Müller-Brockmann's achievement: a defensible claim to be the twentieth-century's most influential visual artist."--Eye (The International Review of Graphic Design)